On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:36:50 +0200 Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On 12 September 2012 19:25, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote:
> >
> > I changed the posting to just ast-developers
> > it would be good for all to not cross-post identical messages to {
> > ast-users ast-developers }
> Do the lists work again? I've been posting to ast-users and
> ast-developers because it's both user and developer concern, and the
> damn f*king mailman was broken for ast-developers.
there has been some tweaking on the mailman and spamassassin fronts
plans are to shortly move the ast-* and uwin-* lists to an external server
which will insulate the lists from internal spam warfare/fallout
> > On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:14:00 +0200 Cedric Blancher wrote:
> >> Here's another (likely contentious) issue:
> >> Can we document the extra EUC regex character classes, which are for
> >> example present in almost all Unix Japanese locales (e.g. jspace,
> >> jhira, jkata, jkanjim jdigit, while EUC AFAIK defines more), in
> >> ksh93(1)?
> >
> > ast regex [[:NAME:]] uses wctype(3) and iswctype(3) to support all
> > functions supported by the current locale, and this winds its way
> > to all ast regex and ksh pattern matching and globbing
> I know. The shame is: Not documented.
aha
well I plan to update (or in some cases instantiate) documentation
along with the ongoining no-globals/thread-safe/sized-buffer sweep
of libast and a related libraries
> >
> > rather than document all possible NAMEs for all possible locales,
> > possibly in multiple places (regex(ast), typeset(ksh), etc.),
> > can we reference documentation that describes the concept and how
> > a user could determine the available functions for a specific locale?
> AFAIK there is no standard function in libc to get the extra character
> classes. Typically you learn them when you learn information
> processing in the CJKV locales.
this inability of the standard to view itself as a programmable
object that can be queried is an unfortunate shortcoming
> I noticed that some of the Japanese translations of ksh(1) and
> ksh93(1) in AIX and Solaris list these extra classes - but only for
> Japanese, the Chinese translation then only lists the Chinese extra
> classes - and so on.
> IMO someone has to dig out the EUC documentation and just provide the
> list of all possible combinations (~15 or so, not much). That will be
> better than hiding this feature in some goddamn places none will ever
> find (as a general point of criticism: AST is great and does an even
> greater job with standards conformance - but it's full of places where
> the light of documentation has yet to appear. Which is IMO a shame).
fixing the ast doc holes is a high priority this fall
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